[https://www.jonbirdsong.com/content/images/wordpress/2019/10/Typewriter-1.png] Every now and then, an old tool can ignite a lost art. For me, a 1957 Olympia SM3 typewriter did exactly that. I came across the typewriter on a recent trip back to New Jersey and re-found it in…
The value from one tidbit [https://www.jonbirdsong.com/2018/05/20/tidbits/] of information can go a long way. Netflix’s new documentary, Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates [https://www.netflix.com/title/80184771]gives the world a look into how Bill Gates thinks about problems and…
Getting in your flow is priceless. Seriously, it really is unpurchasable. A writer’s flow happens when every agonizing word to their essay or story fits perfect. Entrepreneurs are in the flow when they can’t go to sleep because what they are building is working and bringing tangible value…
After a few years of sporadically clicking on headlines from the gated content site theAthletic [https://theathletic.com/], I’ve crossed the chasm as a consumer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm]. The final straw was an article published last week in Bloomberg [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/…
I read some time ago that everyone should keep a book of writings that speak to them. Recording key phrases and words has been a fun exercise for many years. As I plod through a few books on Winston Churchill, his prose and vocabulary have me jotting down several lines…
On January 17th this year, I started a daily habit called Homework for Life. I learned this tool from the book Storyworthy [https://www.amazon.com/Storyworthy-Engage-Persuade-through-Storytelling/dp/1608685489] ,written about earlier here. [https://www.jonbirdsong.com/2019/01/31/a-podcast-about-micro-transformations/] Homework for Life is the act of writing a…
Marketers across the world undoubtedly have heard the saying, “content is king” for the past several years. Content marketing in the late 2000’s and early 2010’s was the rage particularly as social media pervaded our iPhones. Marketing savants and guru’s like Gary Vee (who impressively has his…
“Don’t peak when you’re in high school” is advice I heard a dad give his son recently. The advice is sound but a larger question prevails with many questions behind it: When should one peak? And peak in what? Happiness. Influence. Contentment. Love. Harmony. Health. Wealth. I have…